Cynthia G. Clopper | |
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Nationality | American |
Board member of | President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2020–2022) |
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Thesis | Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation (2004) |
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Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Phonetics |
Main interests | Sociophonetics;prosody;speech perception |
Website | www |
Cynthia G. Clopper is an American linguist and professor in the linguistics department at Ohio State University. Clopper is known for her work on dialect perception,including cross-dialect lexical processing and regional prosodic variation in American English. [1] [2]
Clopper holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Russian from Duke University. She received her PhD in 2004 from Indiana University Bloomington,with a dissertation titled Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation. [3] In 2013,she was named a Distinguished Young Alumni honoree by the Indiana University Linguistics Department. [4]
Clopper currently serves as co-editor of the journal Language and Speech [5] and has served as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Phonetics [6] and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America . [7] She is currently the president of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. [8]